Phil Foden - 2018/19 Performances

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Ok fair enough , honest question do you think we should have and could have done more to keep Sancho??

Sancho would have stayed if we didn't go after Sanchez that summer. Considering we didn't even get Sanchez, and probably could have done with a winger on occasion last season, I think he'd still be here and pretty happy if we'd just decided to go without him in the first place.
 
Think this explains why Pep was right not to start him.
https://www.football365.com/news/lyon-give-man-city-a-glimpse-of-the-midfield-of-the-future

Many questioned Guardiola’s decision not to start Phil Foden in France, but that call was justified by full-time: as brilliant as the 18-year-old is, this would have been a test he’d have neither passed nor learned from.

This is a terrible article because it completely misses the reason why Lyon's midfield had such a nice game - they were playing against a 2 of Fernandinho and David Silva.

Neither Sterling nor Mahrez, who both took turns trying to be the third midfielder we were missing, are actual midfielders. They don't keep the ball well, they aren't positioned properly and they don't have the work rate.

Foden is a midfielder, he would have at least helped the balance in midfield and suggesting he couldn't have done well in the same article that goes on about how young and inexperienced midfielders had a great game is ridiculous.

Lyon's midfield wasn't the midfield of the future when they were scraping draws against hoffenheim, shakhtar or Nimes, or when they were getting twatted 5-0 by PSG. they just had a good game against an experimental selection and formation from Pep.
 
Sancho would have stayed if we didn't go after Sanchez that summer. Considering we didn't even get Sanchez, and probably could have done with a winger on occasion last season, I think he'd still be here and pretty happy if we'd just decided to go without him in the first place.


I agree with this.
 
Think this explains why Pep was right not to start him.
https://www.football365.com/news/lyon-give-man-city-a-glimpse-of-the-midfield-of-the-future

Many questioned Guardiola’s decision not to start Phil Foden in France, but that call was justified by full-time: as brilliant as the 18-year-old is, this would have been a test he’d have neither passed nor learned from.

Regardless of how the game would have panned out had Foden started that's a big ol' load of bollocks. He'd have learnt a damn sight more in this game than in every cameo vs teams we'd already beaten combined
 
I actually think Pep almost owes him a start against Bournemouth now, otherwise he’s going to start sounding hypocritical with his constant praise of him. And with Lerner suspended, there can’t be any concerns about him being overpowered by the Bournemouth midfield.
 
I actually think Pep almost owes him a start against Bournemouth now, otherwise he’s going to start sounding hypocritical with his constant praise of him. And with Lerner suspended, there can’t be any concerns about him being overpowered by the Bournemouth midfield.

I'm not getting the overpowered argument, isn't he already a starter for England u21s in which he will have been playing vs players exactly like Ndombele(21) & Aouar(20) and is thriving
 
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May well be right, I suspect Sancho or rather his advisers used City as a finishing school and the way things played out was always their intention.

Don't think there's any reason to think that other than because it somehow means there's nothing City could have done.

By Guardiola's own account, they were close to signing a deal, having even agreed most of it verbally towards the end of May, then we went after Sanchez very publicly and he and his people started getting less responsive.

As a player, there's really no reason to leave City until we try and sign Sanchez - we offered him a bigger deal than he got at Dortmund, and there was an obvious position in the squad - a world class squad under one of the greatest coaches in history.

Anyway, it's done now and it's a very different situation to Foden.
 
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